NonFiction of the week 17 December [View all]

Fairly busy non-fic week here. I'm wrapping up Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan, and will get to two more works this week, both on the short side:

Nitobee Inazo – Bushido

Bushido = The Way of the Samurai, but this book also delves into how the samurai were a reflection of the greater Japanese culture. Teddy Roosevelt and JFK were both admirers of this work. Fun fact: Nitobe wrote the book in English, and later translated it into Japanese for that market.

Ida Wells-Barnett – Southern Horrors & The Red Record

Wells-Barnett was a fearless reporter, among the first to address the horrors of Jim Crow in the south from the black perspective. These works focused primarily on lynching, and how whites lied that it was about punishment for crimes, when it was actually a tool to terrorize black people.

So what non-fiction is everyone else reading this week?